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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1998
Manfred Weindorf, Vaihingen, DE;
Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
An air conditioner for vehicles has a housing and has an evaporator and a heat exchanger which, viewed in the air flow direction, are successively arranged in the housing at a distance from one another and enclose a housing section between one another whose bottom is approximately V-shaped. A warm air flap is swivellably arranged in the housing section for controlling the air supply to the heat exchanger. For achieving a very good air approach flow to the heat exchanger in all swivelling positions of the warm air flap and a sufficiently good water precipitation from the moisture-laden air flow, the arrangement of the swivel axis extending at a parallel distance from the forward and the rearward transverse flap edge is such that, in one swivelling end position of the warm air flap, the rearward flap edge rests on the bottom and the forward flap edge rests on the front edge of the heat exchanger, and, in the other swivelling end position, the rearward flap edge is swivelled in front of the air passage surface of the heat exchanger and the forward flap edge is situated approximately in a horizontal plane extending through the swivel axis.